Love Light in Mothers Eyes
Have you ever seen the love-light in a mother’s eyes
As she gently holds her new baby, hears the first cries?
It’s like a light from heaven, it shines from up above
As she feeds her bby, she is filled with boundless love.

That love-light never dims as through this life we tread.
It will be there through joy and hours of fear and dread.
As each new child enters into this special mortal live
A mother’s love expands, she is a better mother and wife.

When a child goes astray, a deep, sad pain can be seen,
Now tears of sorrow shine where joy had so far has been,
The anguish as a mother watches her child fill with sin,
Is like a sharpened sword, cuts her heart deep within.

Yet she smiles and loves them, then takes a special care
To show by love, right from wrong, is always there.
One day when her child turns from wrong to right,
Oh, the radiance that shows will dim morning’s light.

When a child is sick or dying, she wants to take that place
You can tell that by that special kind of look on her face,
Every pain she feels twice, as she watches prayerfully
Oh the love that is felt in that mothers heart so tirelessly.

For a mother’s love is given to hearts that know and feel,
So that a little taste of heaven seems close and so very real.
It could be the touch of a hand, a smile on a tired face
A hearts that beats for others, countenance full of God’s grace.

M Ann Margetson© May 1, 2000
POEMS 2000/ Amothers
Written for the Mississauga Ward’s Mother’s Day

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